Commonalties is the word you are using.
So how can you condemn Stalin and communists and yet support Log Cabin queers? So yeah, I "can't see that."
The US, arguably, owes its existence to a Prussian officer, Baron von Steuben, a veteran of the Seven Years War, at one time an ADC to Frederick the Great, and hired by Benjamin Franklin. He was Chief of Staff to George Washington for the whole war.
He was not in Prussian service on account of a scandal of some sort, remained unmarried and childless, and there are some good circumstantial grounds to suspect him of homosexuality.